TFW Available for Women’s History Month!

March is Women’s History Month!

And The Feminist Wire is available for speaking engagements.

If you follow our work, you know that we serve a three-pronged mission: feminism, anti-racism, and anti-imperialism. So if you’re seeking something beyond the pale for Women’s History Month, check us out.

If you’re interested in learning more about bringing any of our speakers to your campus (or a group for a panel), including our program fees, please email us at [email protected].

Available speakers include (in alphabetical order):

BROOKE ELISE AXTELL

Founder of SHE: Survivor Healing + Empowerment (a healing community for survivors of rape, abuse and sex-trafficking), award-winning poet and performing artist, author of Kore of the Incantation.

Expertise: sex-trafficking; domestic violence;  sexual assault

Based in Austin, Texas

 

STEPHANIE GILMORE

Historian, writer, educator, activist

Expertise: sexual violence on college campuses; feminist activism; LGBT and women’s history; oral history

Based in Philadelphia, PA

 

 

NICOLE M. GUIDOTTI-HERNÁNDEZ 

Associate Professor of American Studies at UT, author of Unspeakable Violence

Expertise: transnational feminist theories; violence, trauma and borderlands history; Latino/a Studies; gender and sexuality studies; immigration activism

Based in Austin, TX

 

 

 

ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS

Teacher, writer, activist, co-founder of Mobile Homecoming

Expertise: Black feminism; poetry; publishing

Based in the Southeast

 

 

HEIDI R. LEWIS

Assistant Professor of Feminist and Gender Studies, activist, writer

Expertise: feminist theory; gender and sexuality; media and popular culture; Black studies; critical race theory; critical whiteness studies; social justice and activism

Based in Colorado Springs, CO

 

TAMURA A. LOMAX

The Feminist Wire Co-Founder, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, VCU

Expertise: theorist and historian of race, gender, and popular culture

Based in Virginia

 

ANDREA PLAID

Writer, actor, former editor of Racialicious, associate producer of Black Folk Don’t

Expertise: race, feminism, and social media; race, sex, and feminism; race, feminism, and urban planning; race and feminism across media platforms; reproductive justice and media; social justice writing

 

 

HEATHER LAINE TALLEY

Sociologist, author of Saving Face, activist

Expertise: medicine and bodies; appearance; intersectional politics; feminist pedagogy; queer life; social justice and activism; girls’ empowerment

Based in Asheville, NC

 

HARSHA WALIA

Activist, author of Undoing Border Imperialism, transnational feminist, co-founder of No One is Illegal and Radical Desist

Expertise: anti-racist feminism; capitalism; immigration; imperialism; violence against women

Based in Vancouver, Canada